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SEC-verified vehicles of the same sponsor, predating these roles and carrying none of them. The badge counts them; the figure beside this one does not.
Mergers closed across all 18 — these vehicles and the franchise's earlier ones together.
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2 liquidated · 1 terminated deal — weigh against the wins.
10 vehicles on file, newest listing first
5 of 7 appear on more than one · 4 vehicles carry no counterparty filing we have read
9 people on two or more of them
Brandon G. Lutnick is the controlling trustee of the trusts owning all of the voting shares of CF Group Management, Inc. (CFGM) and serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CFGM.
Brandon G. Lutnick is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P., the storied global financial services and real estate services holding company, and serves as the controlling trustee of the trusts through which U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard W. Lutnick has agreed to transfer his ownership of the firm to the next generation. Appointed Chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald in 2025 following his father's confirmation as the 41st U.S. Secretary of Commerce and subsequent resignation from the firm, Brandon also holds the positions of Chairman and CEO of CF Group Management (CFGM), the managing general partner of Cantor, and serves on the Board of Directors of BGC Group, Inc. In his SPAC capacity, he is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cantor Equity Partners VII, Inc. (Nasdaq: CAES), the latest in a series of Cantor-affiliated blank-check companies he leads, having priced a $250 million IPO in June 2025. He also serves as Chairman and CEO of other Cantor SPAC vehicles, including Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. and Cantor Equity Partners I, Inc., and is Chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald Income Trust Inc. since 2025.
Brandon joined Cantor Fitzgerald in April 2022, initially working in equity sales and trading before moving into the Office of the Chairman, where he managed corporate strategy and oversaw projects across the company and its affiliates, including work with Tether Holdings. His career began as a credit analyst at Oak Hill Advisors, followed by a summer analyst stint at Newmark in 2019 and a summer internship prior to joining Cantor full-time. He rose from broker to CEO of the parent holding company in approximately eight years, a trajectory that accelerated dramatically when his father divested all economic, voting, and ownership interests in Cantor Fitzgerald, BGC Group, and Newmark Group in May 2025 to comply with U.S. government ethics requirements. In connection with that transition, an investor group led by Josh Harris's 26North and Glenn August of Oak Hill Advisors took minority stakes in Cantor Fitzgerald, while Brandon and his older brother Kyle Lutnick, named Executive Vice Chairman, assumed leadership of the firm alongside co-CEOs Pascal Bandelier, Sage Kelly, and Christian Wall.
The Cantor SPAC franchise under Brandon's leadership has been highly active, with Cantor Equity Partners VII representing the sixteenth blank-check company formed by Cantor Fitzgerald. The vehicle targets businesses across financial services, digital assets, healthcare, real estate services, technology, software, and energy sectors. Prior Cantor-backed SPAC deals include Cantor Equity Partners III's merger with AIR Global, Cantor Equity Partners' merger with Bitcoin treasury vehicle Twenty One Capital (XXI), CF Acquisition VIII's merger with XBP Europe, CF Acquisition VI's merger with Rumble, and announced mergers involving Cantor Equity Partners I with Bitcoin Standard Treasury and Cantor Equity Partners II with asset tokenization platform Securitize. The track record of completed deals has been mixed, with several trading below their $10 offer price post-merger.
Brandon graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Science in Symbolic Systems. He is 27 years old as of 2025, the son of Howard Lutnick and the younger brother of Kyle Lutnick. The family's deep ties to Cantor Fitzgerald are marked by tragedy as well as ambition; Howard Lutnick survived the September 11, 2001 attacks that killed 658 Cantor Fitzgerald employees, including his brother Gary, an event that profoundly shaped the firm's culture and the family's trajectory. Brandon is based in New York, NY, where Cantor Fitzgerald is headquartered, and the firm he now leads employs more than 13,000 people globally across investment banking, capital markets, prime services, research, asset management, brokerage, commercial real estate, and digital assets.
[Origin not recorded. Carried over from /people/brandon-lutnick, a second record for the same person.]
This record is keyed to SEC CIK 0002048880 — the identifier this person files under in their own name. Every vehicle above is a filing made under that CIK, so “the same person on two shells” is a fact about an SEC identifier rather than about a name that happens to match.
Roles are the strings the filings used, in the order they were filed. Nothing on this page ranks them, infers seniority, or offers a reason why any two of these names recur — a recurrence is a count, and the filings that produced it are linked beside every row. We also hold 104 institutional-holder rows on these vehicles, under 45 distinct name strings, and none of them is counted across vehicles: that table has no CIK column, and matching holders by name would merge firms that are not the same firm.